Alice Tully
Talk story about Alice Tully, 85, who financed Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Tells how she recently celebrated her birthday. Her role in the arts is a unique one, because she combines the skills...
View ArticleCharles Trenet
Talk story about the French singer and songwriter Charles Trenet, who recently gave a concert at Avery Fisher Hall. At 74, M. Trenet has again become a French institution. During the '30's and '40's he...
View ArticleSimon Rattle
Talk story about Simon Rattle, a 33 year-old Englishman who was passing through town on his way from California, where he had been a guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, to England, where...
View ArticleLeonie Rysanek
Talk story about Leonie Rysanek. Writer explains a major operatic career usually lasts about 25 years, but one of the remarkable exceptions is Leonie Rysanek, who was recently in town to sign 2...
View ArticleSheep Shooting
Talk story about a video shoot of 12 sheep on the Brooklyn Bridge. The sheep, Karen Goldman explains, are to be photographed walking along the bridge footpath for a large-scale music-and-performance...
View ArticleLETTER FROM TRIESTE
On the first Sunday in Sept., a ceremony took place in the gymnasium of the Scuola Elementare Morpurgo-a private Jewish elementary school in Trieste, which resurrected for most of those present vivid...
View ArticleJukebox Saturday Night
Talk story about attending a rehearsal of "Jukebox Saturday Night II", a musical salute to the 1940s & 1950s, which will be presented as a public television special next winter. At a dress...
View ArticleNovik and LaGuardia
Talk Story about Morris Niovik, an 86 year old retired radio executive, who was Mayor LaGuardia's director of communications from 1938-45, & who continued to produce a weekly radio show with him...
View ArticleBirds
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View ArticleJanacek
Talk story about a visit with the Czech pianist Rudolf Firkusny, on the occasion of the first Metropolitan Opera production of "Kata Kabonova," by Leos Janacek. In his West Side apartment, Mr. Firkusny...
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